iPodlounge (prima site!) heeft een goed verhaal over het wat, het hoe en het en waarom van podcasting. Een paar quotes:

… Since podcasting first emerged as a form of mass communication, typical people – professionals, housewives, computer nerds, and teenagers – have been making digital recordings of themselves doing little more than talking.  …

… Podcasts give them a place to make their opinions known, without censure, rules or conventions. And there’s no cost to listeners: it’s all free via the Internet.

… A podcast is an audio mini-program, in MP3 format, broadcast over the Internet. You can download and listen to the podcast on any MP3-compatible digital music player, preferably an iPod, hence the name. The key innovation is that subscribers can subscribe to lists of MP3 podcasts and choose when to download them, taking their recorded shows on commutes, treadmills or flights, unlike traditional Internet radio, where music or other audio content is streamed at particular times and is not always made available for free. …

… There’s good reason to believe that podcasting will be even bigger than it is already. Google the word “podcast” and it’ll turn up almost 1.7 million hits, even though podcasting did not exist one year ago.Een uitgebreid en goed artikel. En voor als je nog meer over podcasting wilt weten, dan kan je doorklikken op een lijst met ca tien andere bronnen op internet.

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